s-fi Q*M,? P 3 nu V IS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun15unse r * • M /V R K TWAIN’S scRap moK. P*A TENTS: UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. June 24TH, 1873. May i6th, 1877. May i 8th, 1877. TRADE M ARKS : UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. Registered No. 5,896. Registered No. 15,979. DIRECTIONS. Use but little moisture, and only on 'the gummed lines. Press the scran on without wetting it. DANIEL SLOTE & COMPANY, NEW YORK. ,vv / BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL MONUMENT AT TAYLORSVILLE. From,. The exercises began at 2 o'clock with music | by the Dollngton band. Genera W. W. H. I Davis, of D ylestown. President of tiie so- " 41 ‘ ,oiety, after prayer had been offered by Dev. Alphonse Dare, of Yardlesv introduced G.m- feral Wil iam S. Stryker, of Trenton, who de¬ livered an address, recalling the incidents surrounding Washington's cr issiug of the Date, Delaware and tire battle of Trenton. General Stryker’s Address. General Stryker depicted in a graphic man. ner the horrible suffering of the Continental i troops on lhat. Christinas day, the depression of the people that so little had been accom¬ f WASHINGTON’S CROSSING. plished, and the feasting and revel of the Hessian soldiers at their Trenton encamp¬ ment. He then told of the supper and coun¬ THE PLACE ON THE DELAWARE cil of Washington’s staff oa Ciiflsirms eve, in S imuel Merrick’s house, on the Newtown f MARKED BY IMPOSING MONUMENTS. road, where the Commander-in-chief laid be¬ fore his effiers the plan of the famous sur¬ prise and attack; the great difficulties en¬ countered In the Ciosdng the river by reason CEREMONIES AT THE DEDICATION of the high wind, the floating Ice and the blinding snow, and, flaaliy, of the groat vic¬ tory at Trenton. ADDRESSES BY SENSUAL WILLIAM S. STRYKiJJ AND DWISHT M. LOWES Y. ■ HEE0I0 DEEDS EEOALLED. MANY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TWO HISTORIC SOCIETIES PRESENT. rSPECIAT, TO THE PfinLIO tKDSEE.] Taylobsviitle, Pa., Oul. 15.—The dedica¬ tion nntt unveiling of the monument erected by the Bucks County Historical Society, marking the place on the site of McICon- key’s old ferry where Washington crossed tiie Delaware on Christmas night, 1770, which was postponed last Tuesday on account of bad weather, took place this afternoon. De¬ spite tiie chilling wind and threatening rain MONUMENT OF THE CINCINNATI AT WASHING¬ a large crowd gathered from the neighboring TON CROSSING. villages, many even coming from such dis¬ tances as Trenton, Doylestown, Newark and I In conclusion he said: ‘‘It is Just and fit¬ Philadelphia. ting, nay, it is a duty to mark in loving re¬ membrance the spots where great deeds have been enacted, or where great men have lived and died, and in this way to commemorate to future ages the magnificent heroism or the men who suffered that the nation might, en¬ dure. By ra»Dutnents alone can we fittingly rescue from oblivion the achievements of those who, in the hour of greatest trial, fought for personal liberty and national inde¬ pendence. ” The Monument Unveiled. After the large fl ;g which covered the newly erected monument of granite had been removed by Miss Bessie Twining, daughter of Mrs. 8. W. 1 wining, of Yardley, who gave the brownstone slabs to the sociely, Dwight M. Lowrey, of Philadelphia, delivered an elo¬ quent oration. Mr. Lowry sail ia part: “When in the chronicle of wasted time we read for knowl¬ edge of the contributions which earlier gene¬ rations have made l» the advancement of the Interests which humanity holds most dear, we learn of no single event more inspiring or more fruitful of beneficent consequences tnan presenVto you, my rerioyr-citizens o» xit.pi- r. well township, this monument, and I ask yau lo care lor it as a memorial of an import¬ ant (vent in the history of our country.” JJJJ2: Ilf Ll'j'j z'Jf Qy vCil Syzg-sjot Among the prominent citiz.-na of this sec¬ !CC3 '<03r(EU3. .c -SOG .rji?M *7 0S3.“3JI3JV tion who were present were: Prof. A.8. Mar¬ J w> JQaaaaii rj no <sasBci» a/ v.33 tin, Principal or 1 he Doyiestown High School; astcaas orasi uw assna osa-rcaro Henry A. Janies, Edward H. Buckman, Cbus. 'JEB> ffi* «s3QraiE3i-Jl acrjir irn. F. Meyers, Rev. Devi C. Sharp, R ibert H. Lyman and Joseph W. Shelly, ot Doyies¬ eoctwrao? cam id town; ex-Sherifl Comly, Robert Eustburn, 'arojac® arajEEf imzsjv&p Thomas C. Knowies and A. C. Cadwalader, ot Yarcley: John S. Williams, Dr. J. B. Wal¬ ter and Hampton W. Rio?, of Sol’bury ; Cap¬ tain William Wynkeop and J. P. Hufehln- son, ef Newtown; Isaac Van Horn, ef R:ch- boro, and Samuel F. Gwlnner, of Taylors- TABLET ON THE CINCINNATI MONUMENT. the hereto aclion which we, in filial piety, hare met to-day lo commemorate on both sides of the river, by votive tablet and by ap¬ propriate and Imposing monument.” The speaker then described how the enthu- alasm of the colonists had been enkindled by the first victories nnd raised by the Declara¬ tion of Indep“ndep.ee, and how after five months It had b on chaneed to despondency by defeat and disaster. It was Washin gton who, in this dark hour, by his bold stroke stemmed the tide of defeat and again raised the hopes of the people. A Tribute to Washington. Of the great hero, Mr. Lowrey saldi ‘‘This Republic may pass away. Another race may succeed us and dwell in the homes where wo now happily reside. Our own descend¬ DOYLESTOWN. ants may forget tho language In which we speak, -even as we iiave forgotten the longue In which our Saxon ancestors recorded the sentiments of their heart and the annals of their achievement; but while history shall Historical Tacts About the preserve the memory of those who have sacri¬ ficed and striven for the welfare of mew, County Seat. while literature shall exalt the renown and extol the character of the virtuous and just, the name or George Washington will con¬ tinue t« be held In reverent remembrance, a»j Inspiration and an enemuragement to every Doyiestown, the seat of justice generous and devoted effort to ameliorate the of Bucks, is within a mile of the condition of mankind.” Mr.Lowrey’s remarks were fallowed by the geographical centre of the county. reading of a poem a»d the singing of a song, It is built on land that once be¬ bo h ef which were composed by Miss M. Hnroourt Clark, or New York, who formerly longed to the “Free Society of resided at this place. A number of Sunday- Traders,” at the junction of two school children, who had como from Peu- Dington, sang sevoral patriotic airs, and, highways, one leading from the after the benediction bad been pronounced by mouth of the Lehigh to Philadel-. Rev. E. M. Jefiferys, of Doyiestown, the crowd crossed the bridge to the New Jersey phia ; the other from the Delaware side of the river, where a tablet, erected by at New Hope, to Norristown on the Society of the Cincinnati of that Slate, was also unveiled. the Schuylkill. Tho Society of the Cincinnati’s Tablet. The town takes its name from The fl ig in this case was removed by Miss Ada Byron Nelson, daughter of Dr. Nelson, the Doyle family, who were among j of Nc3hanlc, New Jersey. the earliest to settle in middle Judge Sims, of Newark, President of the Society, was to have made the address, but Bucks, and was founded about he was usable to be present, so William 1720-30, becoming the county seat Pennington, of Newark, read the address whloh the President had prepared. It is in 1813 on its removal from New¬ eml lently proper, he said, that the monu¬ ment should be erected by the Sooiety of tt.e town. Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. The When Doyiestown was made the society was formed at the close of the Revolu¬ county seat it was a hamlet of a tionary War, In 1783, by the New Jersey officers who hud served in the American few houses and two taverns, where Army, and to-day the society Is perpetuated by the descendants of these officers. the highways crossed, and for many Concluding, he said: “Oa their behalf I years the growth was very slow. " ---- f CT __ • - _.... :ik. (to mrereept the British at Mon¬ Becoming the county’s " capital mouth, encamping here overnight, ■/''changed its destiny. It was incor¬ porated into a borough in 1858. land the house wherein Washington ■quartered is still standing almost This inspired new village life, but within the shadow of the court there was no significant improve¬ house steeple. Doylestown was ment until the close of the war of also the headquarters of General the Rebellion, when many build¬ ings, including schools and John Lacey, the Quaker Brigadier, who kept watch and ward over the churches, were erected. By the Delaware - Schuylkill peninsula, census of 1890 the population was 3000. The present court house and while Washington’s army shivered | jail are not excelled by any similar and froze in the cheerless huts at buildings in the State, and the pub¬ Valley Forge. The residents of our lic school is a model.